Jabo

@jaboUK (64354)

United Kingdom • Age 84

Joined myLot 9 years ago

I joined the writing and computer world very late in life, aged 73. I love gardening and animals.

Jabo's Discussions

Two Right Feet?

Jabo @jaboUK (64354) • United Kingdom 24 Feb 22

Reading Judy Evan's post about someone wearing odd shoes reminded me of the time my husband took odd shoes when we were going on a cruise. They were trainer type shoes (which I believe are called sneakers in the States) and he...

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Differing Tastes

Jabo @jaboUK (64354) • United Kingdom 20 Feb 22

One good thing about living on my own is that I can watch whatever I want to on the television. When my husband was alive I watched very little because our tastes differed so widely. In his latter years TV was his main source...

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The Troubled Young Man

Jabo @jaboUK (64354) • United Kingdom 11 Feb 22

I take paying guests and I've had a lot of interesting people to stay. One young man seemed very pleasant and once he'd settled in asked if he could talk to me. I said yes of course, and he told me he'd just been released from a...

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Parody of the song 'These Are A Few Of My Favourite Things'

Jabo @jaboUK (64354) • United Kingdom 6 Feb 22

Youngsters who think we've no brains now we're older don't realise that these years can be golder they look at us and assume things are grim these are a few of my unfavourite things. At times we might have some trouble in...

favourite things

parody

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'Reports Of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated'

Jabo @jaboUK (64354) • United Kingdom 3 Feb 22

The title is a quote attributed to Mark Twain but it seems that it may apply to me. Yes, I haven't been here for some time, but no - I am not dead. The subject was brought up in Kandase's post 'Where Are They Now' so I thought...

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Longing For Love

Jabo @jaboUK (64354) • United Kingdom 18 Jun 21

I was lonely, went online and joined a dating site, perhaps I'd find a man that way who'd be my Mr Right. I met a U.S. businessman who travels far abroad, we have so much in common, he really strikes a chord. I asked him what he...

poems by jabo

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Stuck In Thailand

Jabo @jaboUK (64354) • United Kingdom 12 Apr 21

My son and his wife were in Thailand when the pandemic really started to get going and all flights were cancelled so they were unable to get home. They were worried about their apartment as they top up their electricity with a...

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What Happened Next

Jabo @jaboUK (64354) • United Kingdom 31 Mar 21

This story is all about Fred who seemed to have died in his bed, but woke up at the wake cried "there's been a mistake", they'd had a fine party instead. But blood from his wife's cheeks had fled, in some consternation she...

wake

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The Wake. (Thumbing my nose at the poem-hater)

Jabo @jaboUK (64354) • United Kingdom 29 Mar 21

There was an old fellow called Fred who sadly had died in his bed, a grand wake was planned the venue was crammed as word of his passing had spread. While friends were all supping their beers and some even mopping their...

wake

limericks by jabo

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Which Side Of The Bed?

Jabo @jaboUK (64354) • United Kingdom 26 Mar 21

If you are one of a couple do you always sleep on the same side of the bed? I was talking to a friend yesterday and she said that she and her husband don't - whoever gets to bed first decides which side they want. That seems...

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What Kind Of Mother Am I??

Jabo @jaboUK (64354) • United Kingdom 24 Mar 21

It was my daughter's 50th birthday yesterday so I wrote a poem for her and put it on Facebook, along with a photo of her as a baby. She wrote back "Have you got the wrong baby?" I said of course I hadn't and then my sister joined...

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Kamikazi Pigeons

Jabo @jaboUK (64354) • United Kingdom 22 Mar 21

Pigeons keep flying into my windows, sometimes killing themselves, sometimes not. I've had four do this in the last few weeks, one on the living room window, the rest on the upstairs bedrooms. I could understand them crashing...

pigeons

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Mad As A Hatter

Jabo @jaboUK (64354) • United Kingdom 14 Mar 21

You might think the phrase 'mad as a hatter' stems from Alice In Wonderland but I looked it up and it dates from 17th century French hat-makers. It seems they used mercury in the felt-making process and it gradually poisoned...

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Parasailing

Jabo @jaboUK (64354) • United Kingdom 10 Mar 21

I had a young friend who was very adventurous despite having been paralysed in an accident. We were in Tenerife and she saw people parasailing and wanted to try it herself. It involves sitting in a boat attached to a specially...

parasailing

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Too Many Poems?

Jabo @jaboUK (64354) • United Kingdom 7 Mar 21

Someone once told me that I put too many poems on this site, and that this is a place for discussions, not poetry. To me it seems a bit odd to dismiss a post just because of it's form without considering it's content. Obviously...

poetry

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How Could She Do That?

Jabo @jaboUK (64354) • United Kingdom 6 Mar 21

I got some flowers from a friend, I wondered how she'd guessed of all the flowers in the world they were what I liked best. I welcomed her said please come in, we'll have some tea and buns the flowers that you've brought for me...

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flowers

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More Banter

Jabo @jaboUK (64354) • United Kingdom 26 Feb 21

Some of you liked the post I put up a while ago about the verbal jousting between the late Koalemos (Barry) amd myself, so here's some more. This was on a post where I talked about our repartee. We have a surprise visitor joining...

limericks

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Bubbles

Jabo @jaboUK (64354) • United Kingdom 23 Feb 21

A bubble bath just proved to be a bit too expensive for me, so I ate lots of beans and you know what that means? yaay - I got all my bubbles for free. (Of course now I might need pot-pourri !)

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Life Under Lockdown

Jabo @jaboUK (64354) • United Kingdom 20 Feb 21

We have been under lockdown in England since just after Christmas, and for me personally it hasn't been too bad. We are allowed to go out for one period of exercise per day and must stay in our local area - my daily walk doesn't...

lockdown

virus

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A Wonderful Offer

Jabo @jaboUK (64354) • United Kingdom 17 Feb 21

I got a wonderful offer from Amazon - fill in a survey then claim a reward. So I did the survey, just the usual questions - did the parcels arrive on time etc, then saw what the offers were. Any top quality smartphone (worth...

scam

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